Movie Makers
By Neko
Part 5
“Again very good.” The director said. Lance found it easy
to play his part because with the gauss wrapped around his face her
really couldn’t see. The make up people came in and did their
make up again before the next scene. Justin eyed the young girl that
was doing his make up. She was young and pretty. Justin smiled as she
got closer to add more make up.
Justin looked over and noted that Joey was watching him with this huge
grin across his face. Justin just smiled and then turned back to the
girl. “Thank you.” He said as she got ready to leave. She
flashed him a smiled before walking off the set.
“Now lets’ keep this going you guys are getting better,
so don’t stop.” The director said. Glad that they could
finally make it through whole shots with out mess-ups now. “Everyone
take your places.” He yelled and they were about ready to start
tapping again.
Morning they thought would never come. But
it soon did and as soon as JC came in they tried franticly to tell him
what had happened last night. “Stop!” JC yelled becoming
confused by them. "Okay," Lance said,“ She was here
last night.” “What? That’s impossible.” JC said.
“She was.” Justin mouthed. “It had to have been a
dream, on one can get in here with out being seen and no one saw any
one.” JC said. “We can prove it.” Lance said. “How?”
JC asked.
Lance lifted the cover where he had wiped
the liquid. JC looked down at the blood and his white sheet. “So?”
JC asked. “If there is some one else she‘s hurt, he would
be in this hospital because there is no way she could see us and hurt
some one unless he was nearby.” Lance said. “So go look
for him.” Justin mouthed. “Okay!” JC said leaving
the room.
“New victim my rear.” He said going down the
hall.
Meanwhile back at school, the janitors where about to clean
the gym, but to their surprise Joey had not locked up. But they soon
found out why. For once inside the shower room they were greeted with
the horrifying sight. Poor Joey was still alive but had lost a lot of
blood. He was quickly untied and on his way to the hospital. The doctors
once again checked her work. Each cut clean and well planned.
JC was wondering the halls looking for any one that he had seen at school.
He had all but given up when he heard about the guy in room 236, Joey’s
room. Upon checking it out he knew he had found the person he was looking
for. He remembered Joey from an English class he had had last semester.
But he did not go see Joey. First he went to tell the guys he thought
he had found their new roommate.
“I told you so!” Lance said as JC told them the news. Justin
was fast asleep because of his company last night. He felt safe to sleep
as long as the halls were full of people. JC did not wake him, but went
to talk to Joey and tell him the bad news, that he wasn’t the
first or the second person to be attacked by this woman.
JC entered Joey’s room ever so slowly. “Who’s there?”
Joey asked sitting up.
“My name is JC, I work here.”
JC said. “Well what do you want, I am having a bad day.”
Joey replied. “I can see that tell me what happened?” JC
asked. “You wouldn’t under stand.” He said. “You’re
right! I wouldn’t but the two men down the hall would.”
JC said. “What two men?” Joey asked. “No one told
you?” JC asked. “Told me what?” Joey asked. “That
you aren’t the first person to be attacked by this woman.”
JC said. “There are more?” Joey asked. “Yes two more
and they‘d like to meet you to try to catch this woman.”
JC said. He could see he had gotten Joey’s interest. “No.
No one told me, tell me are they in as bad as shape so me?” Joey
asked.
“Yes, each in their own way. One had his voice box removed. The
other his eyes.” JC replied. “Why did she do this?”
Joey asked. “No one knows but her I’m afraid.” JC
replied, “and I have no wish to ask her myself.”
JC could see this woman was a force to be reckoned with for Joey was
a bigger man than Justin or Lance, but he wasn’t fat, it was muscle.
Which had to make her strong. “Tell me Joey, would you like to
talk to these men?” JC asked. “Yes, I’d like that
very much.” Joey said. “Give me a min. and I will see if
I can have you moved in with them.” JC said. “Why must I
move in with them?” Joey asked. “You are much safer if you
do. See last night after she got done with you she came to them, there’s
no telling what she would have done if they had not been in the same
room,” JC told him, “as long as you stick together you will
be fine. And with your help perhaps we can figure out who she is.”
Joey under stud now and was willing to move.
They took a break form shooting now. It was getting late.
“We can finish tomorrow maybe.” The Director said getting
down off his chair. “Okay.” JC said with a yawn. “Great
let’s go eat.’ Joey said jumping out of the bed and rubbing
his stomach. “Is that all you think about?” Chris asked.
“No,” Joey said proudly, “I also think about girls.”
He smiled and then ran to catch up with Courtney.
“Would you like to go get a bite to eat with me?” Joey asked.
Courtney eyed him and then smiled. “Sure.” She said gathering
her things. “We can take my car.” Courtney said. “Great,
“Joey said and then turned to the guys. “I’ll see
you at the hotel.” JC and Lance waved at him to let him know they
had heard him and knew what he was doing. Justin was close behind but
he stopped when he saw the make up girl. “I’ll be there
in a sec.” Justin said and then took off after her.
He caught her, as she was about to get in her car. “Hi.”
He said. “Hi.” She replied. “My name is Justin. What’s
yours?” He asked. “Kelly.” She said as she opened
her car door. “Would you like to go get a bite to eat?”
Justin asked. “I can’t tonight sorry, Maybe some other time.”
She said getting in her car. “Oh, okay. See you tomorrow then.”
Justin said. “Yeah, bye.” She said and then got in and shut
the door. That’s when he heard some one laughing. He turned to
see Joey standing over at Courtney’s car, which wasn’t very
far away. “She dismissed you.” Joey said.
Justin gave him a half smiled. “Whatever.” He said and then
headed for the others. Once they got in the car they stopped to get
a quick bite to eat and then headed straight for the hotel. Mainly because
JC was driving and he wanted to get to bed. “Hey, it’s only
8 let’s get our trunks on and go sit in the hot tub for awhile.”
Chris said. “Yeah sure why not.” Lance said. “Are
you two coming?” Chris asked. “No, I’m going to bed.”
JC said. “I’ll go for a bit.” Justin said and then
they all left to get their trunks on. Then they met down at the pool
where the hot tub was.
The hot water felt good. “We worked hard today.” Chris said.
“Not as hard as we would have on tour.” Justin said. “Man
my back hurt where I fell.” Lance said. “You fell hard,
man.” Justin said recalled Lance slip up. “I’m starting
to get the hang of this acting.” Chris said. “Yeah me too.”
Justin said. “How would you know you don’t talk?”
Lance asked. “I know but I have to say a lot with my eyes and
stuff.” Justin said. “Oh, I see.” Lance said. “Tomorrow
I hope we get to my scene. It’s going to be fun.” Chris
said. “We should.” Justin said. They stayed in there and
talked till about 9 and then they got out and headed for their rooms.
On the way up they pasted Joey in the lobby. “So how did it go?”
Lance asked. “It was okay we went out to eat and then we went
dancing for a little bit.” Joey said. “Cool, well I’ll
see you all bright and early then.” Chris said as they reached
his room. The others quickly got in bed.
It seemed like no time at all then their alarm clocks went off. They
slowly got out of bed and get ready to go. They didn’t have to
do much they would put make up on at the studio. It was about 7:30 when
they all meet in the lobby and then headed for the studio. JC seemed
to be wide wake for once while the others where a little tired. As soon
as they got to the studio and got out Courtney greeted them. “Come
on the director has got coffee and doughnuts inside.” She said.
Chris looked her over. She had not been into make up yet and she was
still very pretty. Courtney smiled and then left. Chris looked over
at Joey who was looking right back. “They’re nothing wrong
with looking.” Chris said and then went inside.
“Okay, boys, you were doing well at the close of yesterday so
please be god now.” The director pleaded. “We will try.”
Justin said. With in no time they were ready to start again and everyone
took their places. Joey wiped the doughnut off his mouth and got in
his bed. “Okay, action.” The director said and then they
started taping.
JC pulled his strings and in no time Joey was ready to move
into the guy’s room. A bed was set up and Joey climbed into a
wheel chair. He was not use to not being able to walk and this was new.
But as JC wheeled him into the room he looked carefully at Justin then
at Lance. Justin woke up when he herd JC say “Welcome.”
Joey lifted himself into his new bed.
Justin sat up slowly and turned to see Joey. “Joey
this is Justin,” JC said putting his arm around Justin. “He
can’t talk, but if you watch his lips you can guess what he says.”
“Hello!” Joey said giving a little wave. Joey recognized
Justin right away as being from one of his classes. Justin had been
a very bright young man. Justin too know Joey from Joey being on the
foot ball team.
JC then walked over to Lance. “This is Lance.” He said placing
his hand on Lance’s shoulder. “Welcome to the club!”
Lance said. “I am so happy to be here!” Joey said with a
smile. Not really meaning it. Joey to had seen Lance before but he had
never really talked to him before.
“Tell us what she did to you?” Lance asked. “She chopped
off my legs with an ax.” Joey replied. “She’s good
at what she does however dangerous too.” Lance said, “With
me. She did such good work I’ll never be able to see again.”
“But why?” Joey asked, “Why remove things why not
just kill us?” That is when Chris walked in. “I am not afraid
of her.” He said setting his jacket down. Chris looked at Joey.
“Who’s this?” He asked. Joey just gave a little wave.
“That’s Joey!” Lance replied. “Well hello Joey
let me guess you’ve met our friend?” Chris asked. Joey shook
his head yes.
This made Chris very mad. He began to yell and carry on about how much
he hated her. “If I ever get my hands on her.” Chris snapped.
“You’ll what? Get ripped to shreds?” JC asked. Chris
stopped and turned to JC. “Then what can I do? Sit here and let
my friends and classmates are attacked?” He asked. “Your
no good to them died!” JC said grabbing a hold of him. “I
know.” He said with a sigh. “Let the cops handle it.”
JC said. “The cops are too slow they’ll never keep up with
her.” Chris said. “She’ll slip up one of these days.”
Joey said, “she’s not perfect, you know.”
“She may not be perfect but she’s still very
dangerous.” JC said. Justin was not involved in this conversation.
Instead he sat alone thinking. What made this person different than
the ones in stories? He thought for a good few minutes. What was her
motive? Joey saw that something was bugging Justin. “Justin what’s
wrong?” He asked. Justin shook his head and grabbed a piece of
paper off a table. On it he scribbled the word MOTIVE in big bold letters
and under lined it. “Motive? What motive?” JC asked. Justin
shrugged his shoulders, he didn’t know. “Oh! You mean what’s
her motive.” Chris said. Yes Justin mouthed.
“Yes, of course. If we know her motive perhaps we
can stop her before she attacks again.” Lance said. “Okay,
that’s easy, what do you three have in common?” Chris asked.
JC got another piece of paper to write on. And this is what he wrote:
Motive:
Justin: young, studying modern Tec.
Lance: young, studying world history, A, B average.
Joey: young swim team, taking courses in English, Math, and Science,
That got them no where so they looked at
what each of them had had removed. It seemed she removed whatever it
was that they seemed to need the most. Like with Joey he was an athlete
and with out his legs he was nothing. They knew what she seeks to remove
from each of her victims. . It was getting late they still did not know
who would be her next victim. “You guys were never friends at
some point in time were you?’ JC asked. They all said no. They
had known of each other but they really had not talked to each other.
“We’re getting no where.” Chris said. “We’re
doing the best we can.” JC said trying to put him at ease.
“Impressive you’re almost like pros.”
the director said. They started to set up the next shot. “Courtney?”
The director called. Courtney came running out of her dressing room.
“I’m ready.” She said. “Great.” The director
said as Courtney got ready off to the side.
“I can’t just sit here. I am
going to hunt her down my self.” Chris said getting up. “Chris,
this is no game; if she finds out you’re hunting her. She’ll
come after you and no one will be able to stop her.” JC said.
“That is my problem.” Chris said then left before anyone
else could try to stop him.
As he stepped into the hall chills came down his back, what
if she did come after him? Well at least no one else would get hurt.
Back in the tiny hospital room Justin was begging JC to
go stop him. “He’s got to do what he’s got to do.”
JC told him. Justin knew in his heart that he would not see his friend
again in one piece. Even though Chris claims he will do the hunting,
he will become the hunted for sure.
Chris was jumpy as he reached his car. The air smelled so
sweet that night almost as if heaven it’s self had opened its
doors letting it’s sweet aroma flow over the land. The parking
lot was dark. There was hardly a movement. “I will find you!”
He yelled into the night. Almost hoping she had heard him. With that
he got into his car. The car seemed strangely cool so he turned the
heat on. Letting it blow on him.
He pulled out of the parking lot and noted the time it was almost 10.
“Okay, now where are you.“ He said just loud enough to hear
him. He peered out the windows into the dark. As he drove he glanced
in his mirror that’s when he saw something move behind him, but
before he could do anything she flung some wire around his neck and
pulled it tight. Chris could not do anything to stop her for he was
trying as hard as he could to keep the car straight and remove the wire
from his neck. She placed her soft hand on his shoulder. He shrugged
her off. “You’re nuts.” Chris said under his breath.
Courtney was doing as the director had told her and she
was pulled on the wire somewhat hard when it broke. “That was
easy.” Chris said. Courtney just laughed. “I’m sorry.”
She said. “It’s okay you can’t help it if the props
don’t work.” The director said as she was handed another
piece of wire. “Okay now from the top.” The director said.
“That may be true, but what can you
do about that?” She asked him. Chris was shock this was the first
time she’d spoken to any of them and her voice was soft and low.
“What do you want from me?” He asked. The car grew quite
as she thought. “You said it your self that I was crazy, so let’s
leave it at that.” She said. “What kind of answers that?”
Chris asked. “Not the kind you were looking for I take it.”
She said, “but it’s the only one I’ve got to give
you.”
Chris was running out of time and air, but how could he
remove this mince. The road was barren; there was not even another car
to help him. She continued to torment him by poking him, trying to get
him to remove a hand from either the wire or the wheel. But Chris knew
that if he did she would surly kill him. He looked in his mirror but
he could only make out the black cloak in the darkness of the car.
He had to think fast. That’s when it hit him and he
stomped on the brake sending her flying into the back of his seat. She
lost her grip on the wire and Chris was free. He wasted no time in stopping
the car and jumping out. She ran after him. Chris had no idea where
he was at and he could hear her behind him. He wouldn’t stop running
until he found help.
He tripped on a root that was sticking out of the ground
and fell down. He crawled behind a bush and hoped she would run past.
But she stopped to when she herd there were no foot steps in front of
her. Chris was breathing heavy now. He could feel his heart in his throat.
How could he have been so stupid as to try and find her?
She continued to walk past him and on into the woods. Chris waited then
crawled out of his hiding spot. His legs hurt from his fall so he crawled
a little further trying not to make a noise. He crawled a couple feet
when he ran into a wall of blackness. He was afraid to look up, but
he did and his eyes met with hers.
She flashed him a half-smile and he did the same. He couldn’t
move he was trying to think of what he should do. But before he could
decided her reached down and grabbed Chris by the hair and pulled him
up. Chris yelled in pain and tried to break free from her. “Please
let me go.” Chris begged, tears forming in his eyes.
She let go of his hair and wrapped an arm around him then
placed the blade of her ax next to his neck. “Please.” Chris
said. She placed a hand over his mouth. “Shh.” She said.
Chris looked down at the ax then up at her, he waited for her to make
her move and end his life. But she was still.
Chris could wait no longer it was killing him. He bit her
hand as hard as he could. She screamed then let go of him. Chris dropped
to the ground but got to his feet as soon as he could then took off
back the way they had come, hoping to reach his car before her.
